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NASA said: “How can you see the Perseids if the weather doesn’t cooperate where you are?

“A live broadcast of the meteor shower from a camera in Huntsville, Alabama, will be available on the NASA Meteor Watch Facebook starting around 8pm ET and continuing until the early hours of August 13.

“Meteor videos recorded by the NASA All Sky Fireball Network are also amiable each morning; to identify Perseids in these videos look for the events labelled ‘PER’.”

Perseids 2018: The NASA Perseid live stream kicks off at 3am UK time on August 13 (Image: NASA/MEO)

If you pay a visit to the Meteor Watch Facebook page you can set a reminder ahead of the stream to get a notification once it goes live.

The live stream post is currently pinned to the top of the NASA page.

NASA’s cameras have been detecting signs of the bright Perseid fireballs as early as July 29 last month.

The Perseids start to appear at night from around mid-July when Earth approaches the orbital path of Comet Swift-Tuttle.